syria's opposition forms and new political body to help the rebels and their western supporters to topple president asad amid criticism the foreign based coalition has no support in syria itself. meanwhile fears are mounting in the conflict torn country that rebel fighters are increasingly targeting civilians simply for their illegitimates to the syrian government. and as the greeks said were over were even more caught supporting here is an angry with separation for the german chancellor seen as the main force behind europe's stare and drive.

and the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena josh. syria's once fractured opposition has managed to form a new political body to help the rebels and their foreign backers oust president the deal signed in the qatari capital doha follows pressure from western and arab supporters who are also waiting to see the formation of syria's new government in exile but some analysts are questioning just how much the initiative takes into account the will of the syrian people. from the very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i think as a start in many to say that they don't have much widespread support within syria you know or you touch on the topic of what's been happening in indonesia or in the last few days i think

a fundamental point which is being missed is that the future affairs of an independent sovereign country are being discussed by foreign governments in a foreign country that is absolutely how who are ages we're talking about the united nations the pillars of the united nation states. being completely undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss the future affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal under international law who are. the new syrian opposition coalition is now seeking official recognition from abroad and aims to administer the flow of funds and potentially arms to rebels but the antacid may see direct assistance from foreign troops as a british top soldier has said hundreds of troops could be deployed to syria if the military and situation worsens meanwhile fears are mounting that rebel fighters are

increasingly targeting civilians for simply showing images to the government as marie finished now explain. it was described as conflict on uprising at the beginning no downside left what it actually is violence calling slaughter the bloodshed we have a new kind of war carry them through proxies the dest number in the tens of thousands and it's not just armed men and gauging in battle from both sides it's also ordinary citizens including the deliberate murder of civilians by rebels this is muhammad's affair i met and filmed him during my last trip to damascus this summer a prominent actor and a very descent man while he was now his dad killed because of his views. have syrian have for this teen in muhammad was an ardent supporter of the regime and an active campaign against those he believed were terrorists and that it seems

was reason enough to murder him. i saw his body at a hospital who could make this to him. the f.o.c. syrian rebels admitted killing muhammad he was shot dead with three bullets another school my son became the first actor many of our disagree fires his life on the altar of our motherland i appeal to these murderers what you did is not fair he was not guilty why should those who love the motherland be executed my son loved his mother went and he always helped people and was working a lot and was a very good person muhammad indeed. as a very kind young man i remember he helped me to a drugstore in the middle of the night when i had a fever on our way back to the hotel he stopped by and bought some bread which as i realized later was to give to people many of the checkpoints in damascus but none of this mattered to his killers mohamed was not the first public figure to be targeted like this and he certainly want to be the last people in this least are

sentenced to death by members of the syrian opposition doctors pilots actors engineers are him on them and this black mark means the clock is ticking what we have here is a kind of you know really terror. policy if you are cooperating with this government you are sort of walking and there's of course some kind of international warfare which no civilized nation. putin. stalks every war but when it's the brutal slaughter of innocents whose only crime was to have believed in their own nation the question for the rebels is what kind of syria are they creating. brief notion r.t. moscow. syria's president has rebuffed western calls to step down and warned our foreign intervention will spark a global disaster or this exclusive interview for r.t.

and you can catch it online at r.t. dot com. but all of you who thought about. leaving supposed to contribute thirty four not have been me but would be if i can guess who i think for the president to stay or to leave the popular spot personally and the only way to define. proof over you through the ballot box it's so you thought about what we hear it's about what we can get through the books and the books we've got any president to stay or leave. and other year of pain looms for greece as the country's parliament approves and

a stare any budget which will force more biting cuts upon an already struggling population that's been a precondition from the international lenders for playing another bailout cash injection for months now thousands of greeks gathered outside parliament to voice their opposition to next year's budget its approval follows another even more extensive study package that sparked violent protests last week economists dimitris cause says the m.p.'s themselves know the measures aren't helping the greek economy . the only benefit that the prime minister expects as well as he's coalition partners expect is the release of these long awaited long delayed thirty one point five billion euro but tranche from the labor that's the only scene that the government uses just if you can shoot for the program each node in their midst but the problem is unfair and probably who's going to bring more recession then to

recovery. what merlin implies here what they want to do is to have full control of budgetary constraints as well as some element of n.b.c.'s to have a say in the market. so really the new conditions have to do with who is in control of the budgetary and new situation in greece is the greek government who are. having the last say nothing and anger over berlin susteren drive is expected on the streets of portuguese capital where the german chancellor is expected on monday the country's government recently adopted a new budget of spending cuts and tax hikes which prompted the biggest protest in years artists are for a three ports from was been. german chancellor angela merkel is making her first state visit to portugal since the debt crisis began she's going to be meeting with

the country's prime minister today if the german chancellor is expecting a warm welcome today she might want to think again at the same time as these meetings take place we're going to be expecting protests to be taking place across the country and certainly in lisbon as they straight to start see measures of this and we seen an increase in the amount to say she laments and unhappiness with those measures now portugal's it was hoped would become the southern european success story in a sharp contrast to what we seeing taking place in countries like greece but the reality of the situation is that portugal's facing much of the same if she's a rise in unemployment severe hits to the public sector all of this has really added to public on happening that is just approved the highest spending cuts ever in portugal's modern history and that's certainly going to have an impact this sort of course on the country already struggling in the midst of recession there is

great unhappiness as well it was seen as the closeness between portugal's government and the german chancellor is a source of a lot of talk is the boss of a lot of people's jokes you see it in the graffiti you see it later today in the protest signs the prime minister it's felt by a lot of people sometimes even the submissive to angela merkel and people are really calling for the country for their own government take charge of this not to be led by the german chancellor not just to be led by persons but to be acting in the country's own interest in going to see this protest movement today the protesters saying they're going to hang black cloth across the monuments and not really echoing the black mood that we've seen across much of europe as the euro crisis continues now more news coming your way and the program here in our team clothing. holy right now over holy water and on pain utility bill floods one of christianity's most sacred sites on the brink of closure. a lot more and

more highly skilled brits are turning their backs on their homelands seeking greener pastures abroad more in debt i mean just a few minutes. this was the plan that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution it's already. going to need to be more than hundred thousand people in. groups welcome the fact that children see the children to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects in children in the rest of the

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welcome back you're watching r t an albertan could soon be suffering from a shortage of skilled workers and that's according to recent research findings show a number of u.k. professionals are seeking better lives overseas and that number has increased sharply in the past two decades artist boy boy girl looks into what's fueling the brain drain. london one of the global financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit only won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in

britain the u.k. home office has just released a report that says that an increasing number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave. last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand cases and emigrated a the steves and now some five million brits live abroad and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now say that it's the high rates of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with the motor of the economy are people with a lot of property of approach with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a network. which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the

majority of the people outside the think you take rat race do so out of an overall lifestyle choice signalling and discontent with living standards here in britain that's not the answer. we government is hoping for the consider moving abroad to avoid. slacking off and taking things from people that owning a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that you work until you don't want to reward us so what's the point of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find highly skilled. professional foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's count on migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits popping bed might leave the british government wondering where all the professionals have gone. now let's take

a look at some of the stories from around the world the b.b.c. trust chairman and calling for a radical overhaul of the broadcasters director general resigned george and whistle stepped down after one of the network's top news programs length a former high ranking politician with child abuse allegations that turned out to be false a recent poll showed trust in the b.b.c. is at an all time low with some critics saying a complicated bureaucratic structure is proving a hindrance for the network. clashes have broken out of warsaw with twenty thousand people marching through the polish capital one of the panels de violence erupted after wide wing national started shouting at the government slogans and threw firecrackers at police security forces used rubber bullets tear gas and taunts to bring the situation under control and disperse the crowd to police officers were injured several protesters were detained. at least two people have

been killed in an explosion in indianapolis after a massive blast destroyed two homes more than thirty more houses were damaged with around two hundred people forced to evacuate further deaths have been ruled out with four people hospitalized the cause of the explosion is. now they say nothing is certain in life but death and taxes and paying bills and now one of christianity's holiest sites in jerusalem is at risk of closure that's because of a longstanding dispute whether water company over unpaid debts the church's bank account has already been frozen and matters could even be addressed in court artie's policy or has more. this is the key that opens jerusalem's most holy church the site where quite is said to be crucified for generations it's been an average of judas family handed down by his ancestors after they first received it eight hundred twenty five years ago from family for salah al-din who liberated jerusalem

from the crusaders item of the. i'm responsible for the church but we've been to church every day of five in the morning in closing at eight at night the armenians the orthodox and the franciscans run the church and give me my instructions. and those instructions are strict it's another family than a siebecke man who the doorkeeper is only they can touch the locks which is why for one of the world's most iconic spots it's rather startling that a bureaucratic mishap is threatening to close it down it's a very modern problem for very ancient sites someone it seems has gotten to pay for water. for fifteen years the church has been using a private israeli water company called heavy on without paying a penny the patriarchy who won the church insists an agreement was reached years ago exempting the church from water bills the company doesn't agree with over

a thousand religious institutions including churches mosques and synagogues operating in jerusalem pay for water services the israeli water authority forbids water corporations including hagi on from exempting this or that person or institution from paying their water bill and the deadlock between the two sides could have serious repercussions for worship as. we now we dancers from the head of the world states on the subject and if we do not find a positive response we will close the church to the whole world which should know what the israeli occupation is doing in the holy of holies and the holy land. opposed to show you what sort of does there are divisions between the side. in this unholy round i think the church should pay its water bill i don't see a reason why they would be exempted from paying for something that they use to serve the religious institution of jerusalem without us to pay its water bills so you'd have. stopped paying that i think sometimes an agreement can and should be

reached this particular case is just so special that you know if an exception needs to be to be made just for this i think it needs to be paid for now the water companies frozen the church's bank account hundreds of monks and teachers haven't yet received a sense of ease among them the door keeper who's i'm sure if come tomorrow he'll still have a job keeping tradition going. jerusalem. why we've got more stories you may have missed including hard times call for hard manner it's due as for want of a gag or is a girl friends she is planning to auction off the rock legend swap letters to get financial satisfaction. plus online we've got the story of how one u.s. agency sworn to help people in case of emergency is now showing a cold shoulder to those in need.

it's been less than a week since barack obama was really like the president of the united states and he's wasted no time in getting back to business during the election campaign manny perceived challenger mitt romney to possess a more aggressive foreign policy but as art he's going to count explains obama has begun his second term with decisive action. in the wake of president obama's reelection there was no sense of euphoria as in two thousand and eight but his victory did come as a relief to most americans his challenger mitt romney was widely seen as more aggressive especially his foreign policy rhetoric also a seemingly out of touch with middle class america we are on the american way and we rise or fall together as one. waiting for him right after

reelection is the so-called fiscal cliff a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts all we need is action from the house. and i've got the been ready to sign the bill right away. but averting the fiscal cliff was probably not the first issue addressed by the president he also rise the drone strike targeting a group of al qaeda militants in yemen on wednesday the u.n. has raised concerns about the legality of such strikes due to reported heavy civilian casualties on lack of transparency on the u.s. part we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones this week the administration imposed financial sanctions against iranian officials who the u.s. planes were jamming satellite broadcasts and blocking internet access anywhere and that comes on top of a whole lot of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s. which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy the goal is not to change the iranian government's decision making it's actually leverage ordinary civilians

against the iranian government and threaten to topple the government by inciting you know food riots or you know people who are happy because they can you know their grandparents are dying and can't get medicine and on friday despite president obama's claims the u.s. should move away from the cold war thinking in relations with russia the white house launched its first permanent military presence on polish soil the issue has been a constant sorting this side of relations between moscow and washington as the u.s. also plans to install. missile interceptors in poland but the president's and every other democrat that i'm aware of is also made it clear that if. russia is still opposed to it still sees it as we're just going to go ahead with any of the president's actions so far have shown while he may be talking soft he's acting tough looking at some of president obama's first moves after reelection one could say he puts the idea of america being the wall police very seriously but the

question is who can hold that wall police itself accountable in washington and that is check on. staying stateside our former cia officer has told r.t. that obama needs to break free from the pressure exerted by america's right wing what i would suggest is that he call a press conference what he would say is you know the campaign is over and i found out that i've been grievously misled they told me to say that iran had threatened to wipe israel off the map and i found out that they never said that as a matter of fact the israeli deputy prime minister sort of said ok ok they never said that and so my speechwriters are being canned and i'm going to get some new speechwriters the intelligence community keeps telling me that he ryan has not yet decided to build a nuclear weapon and so i'm going to get rid of all those folks from brookings other places who are the servants this keep saying well you know you still have to

worry about this instead of negotiations once these troublesome people have their own agenda are dismissed then he has a square chance of saying look we're going to do a deal with the run just as i said five years ago we're going to talk directly to them and we're not going to let that be sabotaged by either israeli intelligence or is really for sure not ose within the neoconservative camp in washington. and after the short break peter lavelle brings us the latest debate on cross. over to the. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

in the news you see good laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world events this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com. it are sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. question is that so much i know in which of course you write on a job done so here it is a day of fiscal reckoning is almost upon us by the end of this year the president

of the united states and congress must come to some kind of tax and. is. to. meet. if you. still. want to. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the day of fiscal reckoning is almost upon us by the end of this year the president of the united states and congress must come to some kind of tax and spending agreement to

avoid what is called the fiscal cliff is there the political will to find a compromise and does the u.s. risk its own fragile economy as well as the world's. economic. storm. to cross-talk the u.s. fiscal cliff i'm joined by edward harrison in washington he is the founder of credit write downs also in washington we have mark levine he is a senior advisor with the truman national security project and in new york we cross to anthony rideout so he is the director of economic research for the reason foundation all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and what if i go to you first in washington give us the magnitude of the fiscal cliff ok a lot is being talked about it what happens if we go over the cliff doesn't sound like something good to happen. there you know there or are three.